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It really feels like there are several camps, and each is in a different state of mind. The "buy and wait" crowd is out, as sets no longer seem to be rising over time like they used to. The "Amazon FBA crowd" has an insatiable set of buyers and can turn cheap Lego into profit without much effort or thought, so they don't care. The "just flipping some sets to pay for my collection" crowd is somewhere in between, depending on how badly they did selecting sets in 2015. But rehashing the same arguments on thread after thread is tiresome. Oh and the fourth is "bitter Euros", who are just bitter European resellers who complain endlessly and then come back the next day to continue complaining. You know who you are.

So just to get away from the stock issue talk. I actually started building mine last night, I never had 10179 and have never even seen one, so the size of this thing astounds me. I'm building it on a 6 seat kitchen table and I'm still short of room. Luckily most of the build is modular so far, so I can put the main model to one side while building then add it to the frame when all pieces have been used up. I know that some are hard-core and want to build this opening and sorting all bags at once but I can't imagine the scale of workspace you'd need to do that. I'm around 1/3 of the way through the build and got through ep IV,V,VI in the background while building. Only annoyance so far is the stickers, why oh why could they not have printed them. Especially the large ones supposed to represent the corridors which are difficult to place and adjust. Yeah £650 is a hell of a lot of money for a retail Lego set, but I don't regret it for one second and those who are struggling to get hold of one, don't give up, it's worth the wait.

I'd take an excited signature over some dude I'll never know any day of the week

Here are a few more that code works on. And I was wrong, it does work on some high value sets. LEGO City Jungle Air Drop Helicopter (60162) LEGO City Volcano Heavy-lift Helicopter (60125) LEGO Technic Porsche 911 GT3 RS (42056) LEGO Technic Bucket Wheel Excavator (42055) LEGO Technic Bucket Wheel Excavator (42055) LEGO City High-Speed Passenger Train (60051) LEGO Technic Mercedes-Benz Arocs 3245 (42043) LEGO Technic 6X6 All Terrain Tow Truck (42070) LEGO City Airport Vip Service (60102) LEGO City Volcano Exploration Truck (60121) LEGO City Volcano Crawler (60122) LEGO City Van and Caravan (60117) LEGO City Police High-speed Chase (60138) LEGO City Police Tow Truck Trouble (60137) LEGO City Great Vehicles Sweeper & Excavator (60152) LEGO City Great Vehicles 4x4 with Catamaran (60149) LEGO City Great Vehicles Pizza Van (60150) LEGO City Great Vehicles Race Plane (60144) LEGO City Service Station (60132) LEGO Technic Claas Xerion 5000 Trac Vc (42054) LEGO City Fire Boat (60109) LEGO Technic Ocean Explorer (42064) LEGO Technic Heavy Lift Helicopter (42052) This is not a complete or official list. Just those that I have been able to get the code to work on. They seem to be mostly Technic and City, but not all of them, as well as The Speed Champions. I was not able to find one Superheros or Star Wars that it works on. Check for yourself and you may find others that work too.

That poor little boy, bottom right, in the yellow shirt. He needs his own festival.

That's one

I think that´s a very valid summary but it does not preclude people jumping from one camp to another as the market evolves. IIRC @TabbyBoy, @Ciglione, @KShine and myself (amongst many others) were certainly not complaining back in the day (we were too busy selling) when there were easier pickings from modulars, Star Wars and even City and the first IDEAS sets, which made a lot of people very very wealthy and saw no other way than the high priest of Lego investing @emazers business model. Another point is that the European buyers may be a minority on this forum, but Europe has a bigger population and GDP than the US. On the other hand, there is much greater diversity country by country and "union" is now an oxymoron. When some of us started saying there would be difficult times ahead more than 2 years ago now, we were a minute minority but we were proved right - within our market and selling context. It was clear that too many people were getting in on speculating with the same dogmatic buy and hold plan and no plan B. TLG already recognised falling US (and now European too) demand was one of the main reasons for declining results, so you guys are clearly not immune to the virus - maybe you´ll just catch it later. Gingerbread House lady has a lot of work on her hands.

Somebody might have mentioned it a time or two.

I only want to hear about the hype machine .. plz & ty

People with low budgets previously would buy the official lego sets. Even if they were more expensive due to retirement and scarcity. They just had to safe money for some time to be able to buy them. There simply were no alternatives. Now with the knock-offs they have a cheaper alternative. So they can buy more sets for less money. Just my 0.02

Just finished up ucs y-wing. I like this build, the detail on the ship is well done. It seems to hold up against repeated fuzzball attacks too! (I'm fostering those guys for local spca)

The nice thing about previous years was also that there were many more mom's and pop's shops to go to and find already retired sets at nice prices. So when you got home and you would be entering your purchases in your brickfolio those sets already showed a nice profit. That was awesome! And very satisfactory. Now unfortunately those times are over. Many smaller shops have closed or are already depleted by my dear collegues. Add to this that previously the investor community was more serious and did not have the urge to sell their sets at ridiculously low prices. There was more of a telepathic agreement amongst resellers to keep the prices up at a certain level. I guess many people here can relate to what I wrote above.

At S@H, you can now get the Ninjago Green Dragon poly and the Lloyd poly for purchases over $50.

I'm sure we all have funny stories, but this find was more random than others. I purchased about 8 lbs of older Lego that had been sitting in a garage. A lot of space stuff so my weakness.... Gosh darn it, they had a funky smell right off the bat. So bad I said forget it about stickers or anything else and put them in the washing machine. Better, but not good enough. 2nd time washing machine. After the 3rd time it was tolerable , so I start sorting........... A CLOVE OF GARLIC in the box?!?!?! Sorry, I had to tell that story. It's 1 am and I'm tired of seeing my MILF say backordered

And henceforth September the 4th shall forever be known as "Ginger-Gate". Every year on 9/4 we shall hire bloggers to hype up a previously modestly successful gwp, and we will wager on which one will go viral. I am pulling for VW-gate. And would loathe Globe-gate as I just sold my last.

I ended up just raising my minimum purchase. First $5, $10 and now $15. I sell sets now more than loose pieces. But I'll still get a larger order about once a month for $20 worth of loose brick and minifigs. Now, I kind of use minimum purchase as a way to control how busy I want to be. Or rather how busy my real job is, and how little time I have to dedicate to my store.

After bags 1 & 2, normal amount of extras Then bags "3" just decided to have everything left over.

...and on The Price is Right!

Only on brickpicker is something a scam or theft at all times

Better start all over...LOL

Soon.

Me too!! I like the black "Roof " pieces . Neat little build.

Picked this up today and built it ...

10030 would be a very bad purchase if you're buying for investment purposes. Price has peaked with bogus bricks and also with the recent trend for remakes 10030 is a prime candidate to be remade. If that happens say goodbye to a large hunk of your capital. You just have to see the impact that 75192 has had on 10179. On the other hand if you're one of those collectors that must have every UCS set even though it has been remade and can take the hit on your outlay in the event of a remake (i include myself in this category) then make sure you get yourself a good deal.

I just asked if the UPC was in their system. And it was. The price showed up as $799.99 and had something also that mentioned a free movie at the bottom of the internal page. Couldn't see more detail to know if it was some sort of promo. The woman said no stock was due to arrive anytime soon at locations. But she said if it's in there they'll carry it eventually. RWeb # 810544 UPC # 673419267656 http://barcode.live/?upc=673419267656 I tried to scan the barcode at Walmart and nothing came up. Haven't tried Target yet...

Well, maybe TRU won´t be around by the time this one goes to general release. Of course it won´t be exclusive to TLG forever, that would be dumb. What will make it exclusive it size an price as many shops will only have it as a web order item.

Do we get to have an annual event, like Ginger Fest?

I'm not convinced this set is that expensive / low profit for TLG. at the end of the day it's manufactured in an automated process and boxed up. Apart from Disney licensing they have no third party costs, it's their product after all. No need for any special components. Sure it's heavy but many things are. It's very expensive I think there is plenty of profit for TLG. Its more expensive than many large kitchen appliances and electronics such as fridges and TVs, yet those can be shipped or stocked in store and make the sellers a margin. actually I think it gives TLG really god value, it's like they are selling 10 mid-size sets in one sale but with only one unit to shift. i think TLG will do just fine £€$-wise

I'm still over 100%. Selling regularly. My death stars are dragging me down. But clearing them out one at a time.

The box is big enough, I might send one around for BrickPicker signatures.

Shocking. Thought I was retiring off this

duh, no thumb ...what was i thinking

I have found no list but have tried it on a great many sets, especially all high value ones. The only other that I have found it to work on is one of their exclusives, LEGO City Police Auto Transport Heist (60143)

We had one, then we didn't, then I stickied it, then people said please don't because Amazon doesn't have enough deals. A little from column A, a little from column B. If perchance this thread gets added to, we can always revisit.

Posted 20 hours ago (edited by redghostx ) This also pairs nicely with either the Duplo train (add $2 filler) or the Heavy Haul Train 60098 - http://www.ebay.com/itm/LEGO-City-Heavy-Haul-Train-60098-/172818718382?hash=item283ccc5eae:g:fIAAAOSwNw5Zie4- $125 (37.5% off with additional discount) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ================================================================================================================================ Maybe the original post wasn't clear enough. The deal is that these are 30% off on the Toys R Us website PLUS with the promo code 20OFFLEGO adds up to a total of 44% off. This beats buying it using TRUTH in store or any deals used on Ebay. For example set 60098 Heavy Haul Train can be bought and delivered for $111.19. Mine have gone thru processing and now show shipped so there seems to be no worry of cancellation.

I have the table to put the Falcon in (and plan to build around it), but not the Falcon.... The table was custom made, incredibly heavy to move and not cheap, but will be worth it once complete.

thought I would share my star wars collection

Your 0.02 is now worth only 0.01 if you invested in Lego.

Or $17.

This is Elkkthunder outside Emazers gaff, waiting for the moment he can hit the estate sale

Wow. This might be one of the craziest deals I ever found. I just left Savers (a goodwill type store). Found a big bag of Legos marked $9.99. I had a 30% off coupon, so I paid $7. I wasn't sure what was in the bag, but it was big enough to be worth it to me. Looked like a lot of white and blue so I was assuming some kind of city police stuff. Didn't see any minifigures so I was a little disappointed, but I saw a some numbered bags so that's cool. I got in the truck and open it up. Start pulling out all sealed bags. Lots of white and blue. Oh look, an instruction manual. Woah. It's a freaking UCS R2D2! All bags present and sealed. Instructions never opened.

I will keep saying this - some of the best designers working for LEGO, are working on Ninjago.

I think it also really depends on what your intention was when you got into this 'game'. People who climbed on the "Lego Investing" wagon desiring > 100% profit (ROI) at the very least are now getting disappointed and turning away to other possibly more profitable endeavours. On the other hand for people who see Lego more as a hobby (for building and collecting), and selling some extra sets on the side to partly finance purchases for their own collections, have no reason to 'jump ship'. Sure, the days of "easy money" with Lego sets that automatically rose sharply in value over time are over. But it's still possible to find good discounted sets and sell them again at a 50% or better profit after a while.

I have 'cracked' as well. Not only due to market circumstances but also because I need to free up the money to live for me and my family. At its peak my investment collection was at 540 sets. Now I am down to about 220 sets. Selling the big exclusives is harder than I thought. Eventhough I mostly only offer pick-up. My prices are very competitive. But still the market for them big exclusives seems stuck. I will sell almost everything. Except some sets I want to build and use for my city lay-out. Star Wars and others will have to go. Maybe in the future, when my situation has changed for the better I will start investing again. But on a much smaller scale and smarter. Depending the market situation at that time offcourse.

Ebay another 40139 Gingerbread House for $120 shipped

Just sold a 9678 Twin-pod Cloud Car & Bespin on eBay for $10.88 free shipping! Bought 2-1/2 years ago on clearance for $2.88... after fees and shipping, almost doubled my money... woo hoo!

Toysrus.com has many sets marked down 20% - 30% off, some off RRP and some off TRURP. I hope these prices hold out for TRUTH. It appears all Speed Champions are 20% off. Here are a couple highlights: 60098 - City: Heavy Haul Train - $139.99 (30% off) 70912 - LBM: Arkham Asylum - $104.99 (30% off)

One of my great triumphs was this. Bought huge load of Lego on craigslist for $60. Clearly from the couple photos, it was worth more than $60. After several hours of work, ID'd a good 8 sets that were in there. Downloaded instructions, sorted minifigs, circled some parts that were in there. Took better photos of my documentation, listed set numbers, stated the risks involved, and included photos of some sorted parts. Sold it all on craigslist for $400 to an empty nester guy who spends his evening sorting Lego.

Definitely YMMV and more for a supplies thread. One local Walmart had Duck Brand Bubble Wrap on clearance yesterday: Duck Brand Original Extra Wide Bubble Wrap, 24" x 150', Clear UPC: 075353148273

This has been a very slow build with the kids (really my 7 yr old son) being back in school with common core homework and my job. Then sprinkle in the NFL season Anyway, we finished bags 7-10 since the last post here. We're getting near the finish line. The interior has been a great build experience for my son. He enjoyed building the pool table, beds and the lab. So far Slimmer and the Ghost Librarian are by far his fav mini-figs. The daughter likes putting the 2 recent TRU Disney Princess Beauty & the Beast builds in the Firehouse.